What we learned from the Weekend.

Mustafi central with pacy CB’s outside him works against teams who have no attack

Our midfield excel against teams lacking confidence and ability

We are better without The Ox (but good luck to the chap).

In Xhaka and Ozil we have two wonderful creative players who will propel Lacazette towards 25 goals this season

Arsene will struggle to find game time for Walcott

And from elsewhere:

MU are flat-track bullies and will struggle against better, more organised sides.

Chelsea remain a quality team

De Bruyne is a marvellous player and should be sold to Real Madrid – immediately.

The same can be said for Harry Kane

Liverpool played exceptionally well when beating us and were rubbish on Saturday

West Ham are doomed.

And this hurts to write …. Spurs are serious title contenders.

I also learned that it is not a good idea to go walking in torrential rain

written by Big Raddy

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11. Overall balance is more important than getting your best 11 players on the pitch

12. Sanchez may be an impact sub if he’s going in January?

13. Very sad about Coq’s hamstring … ElNeny is an adequate replacement

14. It looks like Bournemouth will struggle to stay up

15. Ramsey has got some fancy tricks

16. We need a song for Lacaz

17. The idiots that booed Sanchez and Defoe should be ashamed

18. Moaninho will go into meltdown this season when things stop going his way (I hope)

On another note……..
Did anyone else clock the cones? There were cones laid out by the tunnel as the players came out for the second half. They had to do the ‘fast stepping thing’ through the cones before kick off … maybe an attempt to wake them from the half time malaise that we often display?

Yip, agree with all you say, and sadly, agree with what Rasp says about Coq. I think this is a big loss so early in the season as while I really like Xhaka, Coq is our only dedicated DM.

Biggest talking point for me is the Sanchez conundrum, and I am not sure what I think is the right way ahead. Seems wrong to drop either Danny or Laca, a they both performed so well and are part of the future.

Now, what’s all this cone business. I was a minute late back into my pew for the second half so missed the spectacle.

Hi Micky, I was sitting next to LBG and we originally thought the cones had been put down for the Bournemouth players, but they came on early and did not use them … the cones were laid out leading into our half of the pitch and sure enough our players used them as they came on. I am encouraged by anything that shows we are trying something different in areas where there is room for improvement, and our vulnerability at the start of the second half has been a feature 🙂

I met up with Harry before the game. He’d been getting it large from a pool supporting mate after the 4:0 defeat. He stood his ground and laid 2 very astute bets I thought …. 1. The Ox starts fewer games for pool this season than he did for us last …. and 2. That we are above pool in the table at Xmas

I’d drop Özil for Sanchez against Chelsea. It won’t happen, but it’s what I’d do.

De Boer been sacked. Crazy after 4 games. They should’ve beaten Burnley yesterday and were the better team and had really good opportunities to score. Plus the goal they conceded was a shocking defensive error. Not a lot a manager can do when open goals and one on ones are being missed and your attacking midfielder gifts the opposition a goal.

Thanks Raddy. Not much to disagree with in your assessment points (and Rasp’s also) except I would change point 5 in the 2nd list to we allowed and encouraged Liverpool to play exceptionally well against us, and made them look better than they actually are. Not saying they are a bad outfit but when comparing our best 1st 11 and squad depth to theirs I think we are better in both departments. That game and horrific result was 80% down to us and 20% them.

Fred, what return to the 4-2-3-1 that we were pants in last year that saw us (in the 2nd half of the season) lose 3-1 to each of Pool, Chelsea, and the mighty WBA. 2-1 to Watford at home. 5-1 to Bayern Munich twice, and have to come back from 3-0 down against Bournemouth………..compared to (after switching to a back 3) 9 wins out of the final 10 games of the season including wins over Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea in the cup final, plus a 4-1 win away at Stoke all while scoring 20 goals and conceding 7 in those final 10 games.

Thanks BR, good post. Succulent short statements are excellent
I think it’s more important to learn from mistakes and to never repeat them but you are right, the game was very telling

The goals from Welbeck and lacazette were terrific. If we were to take just one positive from the game and carry it forward it had to get the goals galore. What a difference a proper striker makes to a game!! Awesome

I was thinking about dotty the other day, no idea why. Is she the most important member of the family?

Never mind Brexit, a Polexit is brewing in my crazy country. A politician from the leading party of trump-like morons declared that the French won’t tell us what to do ! We tough them how to use forks! Sheer embarrassment 😦

I suspect that he will play it the same way as he does the FA Cup; he starts off with a make shift team and if we get the breaks and make progress he will steadily increase the quality of the team that he fields.

Enough of Thursday footy talk.
I’m reading a book about wisdom of psychopaths. I’m definitely not a psycho – they are cool and collected, but also charming and focused. I’m none of these. So why do I get an urge to murder half the population, at least half of any given walk of life?

That’s easy Eddie, self loathing. When one secretly and subconsciously despises ones self they project there loathing on others.

I wouldn’t worry about it Eddie, I myself enjoy a good murder and would even welcome my own homocide, then I could watch Columbo catch my bow tied killer. it’s perfectly normal. Deep down we all realise we’re not worthy of the skills of Brady.

Thanks for the post Raddy. I was really nervous on Saturday. My thoughts were that a defeat followed by the Chelsea trip could lead to an undignified end to our greatest post war manager. As I took my seat Saturday sitting next to me was an elderly gentleman of around 80. He greeted me with hello and I responded with “I’m living in fear”, he never spoke to me after that.

Just glad we got it out of the way so can now go and win the league in peace